Saturday, January 2, 2016

What Went Wrong at Porter Ranch?

Matt Pakucko, president of Save Porter Ranch, has called for the closure of the Aliso Canyon storage site.

Photo by Danny Liao

Before she retired in 2014, Anneliese Anderle was a field engineer
for the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermic Resources, which regulates
oil drilling. She worked out of offices in Bakersfield, Cypress and
Ventura, and for a while she was responsible for monitoring the massive
natural gas storage field at Aliso Canyon.

Southern
California Gas owns the facility, which distributes gas to 14 power
plants and 21 million customers. In her years monitoring wells at Aliso
Canyon, Anderle says she got to know the gas company as "a first-class
operation."

The company tended to be conservative, and to do
things rigorously and by the book. But the wells at Aliso Canyon were
aging, and many were starting to wear out. MORE

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